Allison Fluke-Ekren
Allison Fluke-Ekren of Overbrook Kansas, aka Allison Elizabeth Brooks (aged 42 at arrest, Jan-28-2022[1]), is a convert to Islam[2] who has provided material support to terrorist organizations. She has been arrested for leading and training ISIS forces in Syria.
She traveled to Syria several years earlier to commit or support terrorism, and led a female ISIS battalion in that country,[3] called Khatiba Nusaybah,[4] in Raqqa,[5] training women and children[6] as young as six[7] to use machine guns and suicide vests[6] and planning to commit "violent jihad".[7]
Her activity was at least 2014 through approximately 2017.[8]
Aliases:
The DOJ press release said that Allison Elizabeth Fluke-Ekren, aka ‘Allison Elizabeth Brooks,’ aka ‘Allison Ekren,’ aka ‘Umm Mohammed al-Amriki (meaning: the mother of Mohammed, the American),’ aka ‘Umm Mohammed’ and aka ‘Umm Jabril had direct involvement with Islamic terrorism being a resident of the United States.[4]
Languages:
The (now) Muslim woman speaks also: Arabic, Turkish and Spanish.[9]
She is a former teacher.[2][10]
Ransoming her own kids
She is accused of ransom her own children to their father and her first husband, James Fluke, after she left the US and became radicalized the ISIS mom fled to Turkey with son Gabriel, then 8, and daughter Alaina, then 7, with second husband Volkan Ekren amid a custody battle with Fluke.[5]
The husband of the ISIS mom had lost contact with his children for 10 years after she fled to the Middle East and ransomed them for $6,000 before faking her own death in Syria.[11] Her family wants no contact with the ISIS mom.[6]
Plots
As a high-ranking member of ISIS, who trained in Egypt, Libya and Iraq before heading to Syria in 2012, Allison Fluke-Ekren planned to detonate explosives at an unidentified US college campus[5] and “fantasized” about bombing a shopping mall, according to court records.[2]
Per her plot, she and her accomplices would dress “like infidels (non-believers) and drop off a backpack with explosives.” The shopping mall plot was similar; Fluke-Ekren “allegedly explained that she could go to a shopping mall in the United States, park a vehicle full of explosives in the basement or parking garage level of the structure, and detonate the explosives in the vehicle with a cell phone triggering device.” She wanted this to be a mass casualty attack.[8]
“Fluke-Ekren allegedly considered any attack that did not kill a large number of individuals to be a waste of resources. As alleged by the same witness, Fluke-Ekren would hear about external attacks taking place in countries outside the United States and would comment that she wished the attack occurred on United States soil instead.”[8]
References
- ↑ Case No. 1:19-mj-231 PDF
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Isabel Vincent, "How US-born Allison Fluke-Ekren went from science teacher to ISIS radical", NYPost, February 3, 2022.
As a high-ranking member of ISIS, who trained in Egypt, Libya and Iraq before heading to Syria in 2012, Allison Fluke-Ekren planned to detonate explosives at an unidentified US college campus and “fantasized” about bombing a shopping mall, according to court records.
- ↑ Sonnet Swire and Evan Perez, "Kansas woman led female ISIS battalion in Syria, prosecutors say", CNN, January 29, 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "American Woman Who Led ISIS Battalion Charged with Providing Material Support to a Terrorist Organization", DOJ, Jan 29, 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Adriana Diaz, "Kansas 'ISIS mom' is denied bail and remains in custody as she faces terrorism charges for 'joining ISIS and leading all-female battalion armed with AK-47 rifles in Syria'", Daily Mail, Feb 4, 2022.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Family wants no contact with accused US IS member", BBC, Jan 31, 2022.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Tara McKelvey & Boer Deng, "'All-American girl' turned jihadist denied bail," BBC, News, 4 February 2022.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Jessica McBride, "Allison Fluke-Ekren: Overbrook, Kansas, Teacher Accused in ISIS Plot", Heavy, Jan 30, 2022.
- ↑ Laura Johnson, "What to know about Allison Fluke-Ekren, former Kansas woman accused of ISIS plot", Topeka Capital-Journal, Feb 1, 2022.
- ↑ "American Woman Accused of Prominent Role in Islamic State", NYT, Jan 29, 2022.
The woman, Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, a former teacher from Kansas, was charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization.
- ↑ Greg Woodfield, "EXCLUSIVE: 'I hope they lock her up and throw away the key.' Ex-husband of Kansas 'ISIS mom' reveals he lost contact with his children for 10 years after she fled to the Middle East and ransomed them for $6,000 before faking her own death in Syria", Dailymail.Com, 03 Feb 2022.
